Dridex botnet alive and well, now also spreading ransomware

Last October’s disruption of the Dridex botnet by UK and US law enforcement agencies and the arrest of a Moldovan bot master have not lead to the death of the botnet. That’s because the botnet is segregated into a number of subnets, each likely operated by a different team of attackers, and they continue to mount campaigns that will swell the number of infected machines and to exploit the stolen banking information. “Dridex’s operators are … More →